Posts Tagged ‘Propaganda’
Government Repression Cannot Solve the Problem of Fake News
December 15, 2016 The provincial government of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has just passed a law that went into effect last week that will issue large fines of up to 500,000 RMB to individuals spreading false news and harmful content online, harmful being defined as damaging to national security, religious and ethnic harmony or seeking…
Read MoreXinhua Uyghur’s Limited Coverage of Leadership Change
November 20, 2012 Greg Fay, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project Xi Jinping, the newly selected General Secretary of China’s Communist Party, held his inaugural press conference last week. His speech, promptly translated on Xinhua’s English site, references China’s obligations to ethnic minority citizens repeatedly. Yet Xinhua’s Uyghur service did not provide a translation of the…
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